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H. G.'BUTT. ANTIREIE'ILLING BOTTLE.

No. 582,113. Patented May 4,1897.

HAROLD G. BUTT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE J. COPP AND MARY A. BUTT, OF SAME PLACE.

ANTIREFILLING BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters laatent No. 582,113, dated May 4, 1897. Application tiled May 13, 1896. Serial lo. 591,392. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, HAROLD G. BUTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Antirelling Bottle, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in antirelling bottles.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction oi antirelling botl[les and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and etlicient one capable of effectu ally preventing; a bottle from being refilled after it has received its original contents.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view of an antirefilling bottle constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the neck of the bottle, illustrating the construetion and arrangement of the depending converging resilient fingers.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawings. V

1 designates an antireiilling bottle com prising a body portion 2, constructed of glass, and a neck 3, constructed of metal and provided at the lower end with a flaring iiange et, conforming to the configuration of and suitably secured to the adjacent portion of the body of the bottle. The neck is open at the top or mouth ot` the bottle and is preferably shaped to present an appearance similar to an ordinary bottle. l

At the lower end of the neck, on the interior thereof, is arranged a curved valve-seat 5, and within the neck is located a pair of balls 6 and 7. The lower ball is smaller than the upper ball 7 and is arranged on the seat 5 and is adapted, when the bottle is in an up right position, to cover the opening at the lower end of the neck to prevent a liquid from being introduced into the bottle. The upper ball 7, by being larger and heavier than the lower ball, operates to retain the latter on the valve-seat until the bottle is inverted below a horizontal position.

The balls are retained in the lower portion of the neck of the bottle by the ring S, provided with an annular .series of resilient fingers 9, converging downwardly and forming an approximately inverted cone. lingers are adapted to be spread sutliciently to permit the balls to be introduced into the lower portion of the neck of the bottle after the latter has received its original contents, and the ring S, which is resilient, is interlocked with the neck of the bottle and iits in an annular groove l0 thereof.

It will be seen that the antireiilling bottle is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it cannot after receiving its original contents be again iilled, and that when it is inverted ils contents may be freely decanted.

It will also be apparent that the valve mechanism is readily introduced into the neck ot the bottle after the latter has received its original contents.

Changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of the construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sac riticing any of the advantages of the invention.

That I claim isl. In a device of the class described, the combination of a bottle provided at the lower end of its neck with a valve-seat, a ring interlocked with the neck of the bottle and provided with a series of depending, converging resilient iingers, and a ball-valvearranged within the lower portion of the neck of the bottle and adapted to be introduced through the converging fingers, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of a bottle provided at the lower end of its neck with a curved valve-seat, and having an interior annular groove at an intermediate point, a ring interlocked with the groove of the neck and provided with a series of depending converging resilient fingers, and the upper and lower balls arranged within the lower portion of the neck of the bottle and adapted to be introduced through the converging ngers, the lower ball being smaller The IOO

of .the neck of the bottle and adapted to be lintroduced through the converging lingers,

substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in I5 the presence of two witnesses.

HAROLD G. BUTT.

Witnesses:

GEO. J. COPP, J AMES JACKSON. 

